Have Ear Wax production increased over time?

[aplefka]

Originally posted by: EyeMNathan
Q-Tip makes your ears externally clean but harms your hearing by compacting the wax in areas of your ear where the wax wont naturally work its way out.

I used a Q-Tip for years, then last year I used a waterpik on lowest setting to flush my ear out, bam, huge block of wax came out that had probably been in there for an eternity, despite weekly Q-Tipping.

Link to waterpik tool used?

 

[quakefiend420]

anyone ever used one of those ear candles that's supposed to suck it out?

 

[jiwq]

hmm, no wonder i've been losing hearing lately... all this earwax. every time i use a q-tip after a shower, all the dirt is at the end of the tip, rather than around the swab. time to go see a doctor